European Globus Community meets at Garching

As
one of the most widespread solutions for building grids in the world,
Globus Toolkit enjoys wide coverage in Europe and thus, future
development needs to be shaped towards European requirements. To
facilitate this through a strong European community, the European Globus
Community Forum (EGCF) will hold its first meeting in Garching near
Munich, Germany, on May 18th and 19th,
2011. This organizational platform is part of the community building
effort within the Initiative for Globus in Europe (IGE) project and aims
to coordinate the European Globus users and developers. This way Europe
will be able to speak with a single voice towards the Globus core
development teams and play a strong role in the world wide Globus
community.

The first European Globus Community Forum meeting takes place from May 18th to May 19th
2011 in Garching near Munich, Germany. This event will give interested
Globus users and developers the chance not only to learn about the state
of the union of the Globus software stack and how the IGE project can
help scientists to leverage resources of the European distributed
computing infrastructures (DCIs) for their research, but also gives a
unique opportunity to actively participate in the building of the Globus
community in Europe. Participation of Globus experts and other European
Globus users and developers ensures a great way of getting to know each
other and to learn how colleagues employ Globus to advance their
science projects.

Moreover, the EGCF is an integral part of the IGE project (http://www.ige-project.eu),
which coordinates the support for Globus in Europe -- this way, the
voice of the users will be heard not only in the project itself, but
also amplified towards the Globus developer team in the United States.
As such, it provides a great opportunity to bring in a
community-centric, science-biased view into the Globus view by providing
requirements, requesting features, and discussing best practices.

“The
European Globus Community Forum gives the communities in Europe a
powerful means of bringing requirements to Globus development in a
coordinated way. For the first time, the efforts for advancing one of
the most popular eScience tools can be voiced with the appropriate
strength through an established channel towards the U.S. based
development team in a single, coherent way. This is an opportunity users
and developers in Europe shouldn’t miss.” says Alexander Papaspyrou,
Dissemination Manager at the IGE project.

Highlights
at the EGCF will be keynote presentations by Steve Tuecke, CTO of the
Globus family of products, on the brand-new Globus Online file transfer
“no software” (SaaS) solution, and Steven Newhouse, Director of the
European Grid Initiative, on the future paths in Distributed Computing
Infrastructures. Moreover, the event will consist of workshops and
discussions regarding the steps IGE has taken for the European
communities already. The most important part of the meeting will be the
constitution of the EGCF as a formal body within the IGE project, and
the election of a speaker for the EGCF who will actively participate in
the IGE Advisory Board to bring in European users’ and developers’
requirements more efficiently.

Register today at http://go.ige-project.eu/egcf1 and find more information on the event, its agenda, and the EGCF as a body for Globus customers in general.

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IGE (RI-261560) is funded by the European Commission under Framework Programme 7 (2007-2013).